Virgin cans 1GB for $10 deal, drops to 300MB
Virgin goes all prick tease on mobile data lovers, inviting you in with a 1GB data offering for $10, and then locking you out in the hallway, naked, with only 300MB to show for it.
UPDATE: The good news is, if you were fast off the block, your 1GB plan will be honoured (no specific word on how long for). They actually dropped the plan back to 300MB two weeks after it launched, so it was a small window of time in which you could have nabbed that rate. Everyone else? 300MB is the best you’ll get from Virgin.
At their excess usage rate, that opens up a $10,500 chasm between you and a juicy 1GB limit. Compared to the competition (sans X-Series), 300MB / $10 isn’t bad, but if you were still thinking about it, now you just have to go back to dreaming instead.
Virgin told Gizmodo:
After much consideration we have decided to tweak the current offering. We saw evidence that after 2 weeks in the market place the 1gig plan for $10 was at risk of being misused as a home broadband replacement – something it was not designed to be used for. We still feel that our offering is an extremely strong one and after research into usage profiles, are confident that we are offering our customers exactly what they want/need.
Hehe. ‘Tweak’.
Virgin Mobile data rates [Virgin Mobile]
Thanks Michael for the tip!
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Comments
I still cannot beleive they can get away with charging this much for 3G data plans. $10 for 300mb is still 10 times too much. Makes me angry enough to kill kittens.
crap! this sucks. i noticed this a few days ago and even turned back to gizmodo to confirm and voila, i see the post now. this SUCKS. australia really needs to learn from the UK and USA about broadband and data charges, they have uncapped and unlimited broadband offers. who would use a 3G connection (okay maybe HSDPA) with only a 1 gig limit per MONTH for their home connection? i mean i browse 1 gig a day i think! and the maximum i’ve downloaded is 40 gigs in a day. Look at optus, offering 400mb of downloads a month :s. insane.
All im looking is for a 3G plan that i can use to make Voip calls with fring on my N80. I’m currently on optus but im thinking of changing to 3 and taking their x-series.
Phone companies always do this. They create these awsome plans then realise its not finacially feasible for them. I had Voda do a similar thing and then had to put me on a better plan the the one i signed for simple because their ’system’ couldn’t handle the one i signed.
Marketing really need to start talking to accounting
i’m thinking about a switch to 3 As well…
Was the only place that would give me an N95 for nothing on a plan too…